So, what is creative freedom? We can make what we want, how we want. The only constraint is: not for any budget.
BAZ LUHRMANNI’ve always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it’s the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia’s passion to get lost in a faraway place.
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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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I’ve always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it’s the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia’s passion to get lost in a faraway place.
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Hurt him. Hurt him and save him
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Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
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In the ’80s, everyone wanted to be in opera. It was groovy.
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Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone’s idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
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In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn’t make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
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When you’re in theater or the circus or film – to me it’s all one – affairs happen. People fall in love.
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Advice is a form of nostalgia.
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I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
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My wife is the fact-checker, I’m in the story telling business.
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You really think that on my films people tell me what to do? I don’t think so. On my films I decide.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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It’s pretty hard to get mugged in Manhattan.
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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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